along with other peoples comments about durability, having super heavy wheels like that will shoot your handling to pieces. You generally want to reduce the weight that the suspension has to deal with, not vastly increase it.
isn't the niche this thing would fill in an awkward slot just above (and overlapping) the segway, and just below (and overlapping) those scooters which sit below - and slightly overlap with motorbikes?
relatively short, and speedy trip from place to place in the city I'd use one of those things versus a big motorbike (scooters just look a touch to fey - well, more than a touch).
So is the vision of the future one where we have a different vehicle for every trip distance and speed?
how far are we going? not far - segway? no, bit further - car? naw, bike? maybe the embrio, but we'll have stuff to carry? stuff it, kids get in the flying car
all this carry on about large and unwieldy software for "embedded systems", Compact Framework isn't meant to run on a PIC like some tiny embedded OSs are, you're not going to run Linux on a basic stamp either, they're not designed with that in mind.
Compact Framework is designed for WinCE devices, WinCE devices meet a few requirements, you have to meet those or you won't run it... this bashing is somewhat pointless.
I can see this thing really screwing up a lot of traffic flow by putting lights out of sync, but is it that dangerous as people are saying?
Don't the lights there follow the same, green, then orange/amber, then red sequence? with a slight lag between the red coming on on one direction, and a green going on the other, so that people from one direction aren't running into the other directions cars?
wouldn't this just cause that sequence to start? so unless other people were going through reds. I don't see why its so dangerous, just something that potentially wrecks the traffic flow.
while living in England (1989) the old guy next door had all sorts of problems with TV licenses, he got busted for having only a Black & White TV license which he'd bought because he had a B&W TV, but they said because he had a VCR which could record in colour, he had to buy the full license... couldn't play it back, wasn't interested in colour.
I recall they gaved a couple of pounds off if you were blind.
Used to see the van come driving through our suburb every once in a while.
does the number of cycles have an effect on the time to failure even if the bending/twisting wouldn't normally cause plastic deformation?
I'm sure I recall something like this in dealing with the lifetimes of pressure cylinders - the cylinder doesn't show exhibit plastic deformation, but it only has a finite number of cycles (i.e. number of times you can fill it and empty it)
what about cars that very rarely get driven on public roads? those crappy old paddock-bashers that will mostly get driven around on the farm/property/whatever, but occasionally make it out onto regular roads (so presumably they'd need to be road registered.
Would you be able to avoid the tax/charges if you were doing big mileage on private property?
couldn't they be tough and just tax the petrol which is easier...
something thats been done before, my first thought was "hey my PDA has been doing that for years" (and yes, before year 2000), as you type out a word it popped up likely words which seemed to be ordered from most used to least used.
Sounds like what was described so far, except its a general purpose thing, no related to 'online search queries' specifically.
After reading it though, the key bit seems to be the actual sending of the keyword listing, so while my PDA might have a list of "porn, pokemon, potatoes" as that list of words starting with "po", it could also query the dataset "'pooh and tigger','posh spice diet guide',potting" that was sent by the search application.
I did something similar as part of an embedded systems project at uni, the simple sensors probably would never ever be doing complex xml processing, just spitting out the same response over and over with little changes e.g.
No doubt an awkward format for really limited 'smart' sensors, but they're probably not the ones doing processing of it - just simple response stuff with a few substituted values here and there.
I agree on the cost points, they ahd a few of these panels on display, not as good as a Tablet PC, not by a long way - though the ViewSonic guy quoted a price that was a fair bit less than a Tablet PC. After all, these are more like a Pocket PC grossly bloated to have a 15" screen size.
I'm not sure where they fit, Tablet PC can run standalone - but a Tablet PC can't hope to have as much potential processing power that you could be controlling via the AirPanel.... erm, unless you ran a Remote Desktop/Terminal Service/VNC/Citrix session to the powerful machine the AirPanel would be controlling... hmm...
Are there many people who'd like to 'take' their regular PC/Laptop somewhere that the system would be unwieldy to use.... but is quite fine when in its normal usage (obvious with a PC, maybe you don't want to have your laptop with you when you're sitting on the lounge)
The type of memory used in these solid state cards has a limited lifetime. In general use its probably not something you would ever worry about - its more likely that you'll have switched to some newer, larger, better memory card/type well before reaching the end of the cards lifetime.
Flash memory can only sustain a certain number of write operations on each section of memory, so, after it has reached its limit, it will go bad - different quality cards have different lifetimes. Consumer cards have a lower lifetime, industrial cards have a longer lifetime - and a much higher cost.
This is a problem people encounter when running linux on a flash card, unless they'd setup ramdisks to be used for swap, and temp files, they would quickly rip through the cards lifetime. There are a few special filesystems specially developed for use with flash memory - one is used in the AXIS network cameras.
doesn't using memory cards for swap space kill performance? the memory card I/O is slowww, not to mention that with limited number of write ops on memory cards it'd kill them fairly quickly if it saw heavy use.
the tactile feedback from a touch screen is awful to non-existant. When you dial a phone with a keypad, you don't really have to pay much attention to what you're pressin because you can locate your finger by feel, touch screens don't do that, you have to actually look at it to know where your finger is in relation to teh keys, and to verify its actually registered the keypress.
This is one of the reasons the Sony-ERicsson P800 has a flip keypad that partially covers the touch screen - you get full touch screen for when you want it, and a keypad for when you'd want that as well. best of both worlds.
if the screen is the same basic design as my T68 then don't worry about it, the screens have a hard, transparent plastic cover - its not something that you need to worry about like the screen on a PDA.
given that you need a mod-chip in order to run your own code on an Xbox, wouldn't the Xbox hackers that are interested in the contest have chips already?
but starving children aren't entertaining, the performances of said children on World Vision adverts isn't anywhere near as good as the Farscape team's.
I'm not a wireless engineer either, but I'd imagine that public key crypto has too high an overhead - don't most PKI systems use the public key to encrypt a session key that gets used with 'normal' symmetrical cyphers?
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along with other peoples comments about durability, having super heavy wheels like that will shoot your handling to pieces. You generally want to reduce the weight that the suspension has to deal with, not vastly increase it.
isn't the niche this thing would fill in an awkward slot just above (and overlapping) the segway, and just below (and overlapping) those scooters which sit below - and slightly overlap with motorbikes?
relatively short, and speedy trip from place to place in the city I'd use one of those things versus a big motorbike (scooters just look a touch to fey - well, more than a touch).
So is the vision of the future one where we have a different vehicle for every trip distance and speed?
how far are we going? not far - segway? no, bit further - car? naw, bike? maybe the embrio, but we'll have stuff to carry? stuff it, kids get in the flying car
all this carry on about large and unwieldy software for "embedded systems", Compact Framework isn't meant to run on a PIC like some tiny embedded OSs are, you're not going to run Linux on a basic stamp either, they're not designed with that in mind.
Compact Framework is designed for WinCE devices, WinCE devices meet a few requirements, you have to meet those or you won't run it... this bashing is somewhat pointless.
I can see this thing really screwing up a lot of traffic flow by putting lights out of sync, but is it that dangerous as people are saying?
Don't the lights there follow the same, green, then orange/amber, then red sequence? with a slight lag between the red coming on on one direction, and a green going on the other, so that people from one direction aren't running into the other directions cars?
wouldn't this just cause that sequence to start? so unless other people were going through reds. I don't see why its so dangerous, just something that potentially wrecks the traffic flow.
I'd sooner have a room with a girlfriend in, if it were all the same.
well, if the title of your post is anything to go by... we might know why there ain't one...
"Why, back in my day we didn't even have DNS; you had to send the domain to the next server via smoke signals..."
modded informative? so thats how they really did it huh.
you'd be pissed when the dove finally made it back with host not found.
a Dungeons and Dragons character...
... about $4,000 in gold and platinum coins."
"He was traveling with
When stopped by the Feds did he warn them to back off he's a 7th level rogue with a +5 short sword of slaying?
all those friendly fire deaths caused by the yanks will be more efficient...
collaterla damage, dead civilians and all that aside, US forces seem to target and attack way to many friendly forces
Though maybe these new bombs are a good thing, smaller kill radius takes out less of the troops
while living in England (1989) the old guy next door had all sorts of problems with TV licenses, he got busted for having only a Black & White TV license which he'd bought because he had a B&W TV, but they said because he had a VCR which could record in colour, he had to buy the full license... couldn't play it back, wasn't interested in colour.
I recall they gaved a couple of pounds off if you were blind.
Used to see the van come driving through our suburb every once in a while.
does the number of cycles have an effect on the time to failure even if the bending/twisting wouldn't normally cause plastic deformation?
I'm sure I recall something like this in dealing with the lifetimes of pressure cylinders - the cylinder doesn't show exhibit plastic deformation, but it only has a finite number of cycles (i.e. number of times you can fill it and empty it)
what about cars that very rarely get driven on public roads? those crappy old paddock-bashers that will mostly get driven around on the farm/property/whatever, but occasionally make it out onto regular roads (so presumably they'd need to be road registered.
Would you be able to avoid the tax/charges if you were doing big mileage on private property?
couldn't they be tough and just tax the petrol which is easier...
methinks you may be dissappointed with the response...
something to use with that expensive power-over-cat5 switch....
something thats been done before, my first thought was "hey my PDA has been doing that for years" (and yes, before year 2000), as you type out a word it popped up likely words which seemed to be ordered from most used to least used.
Sounds like what was described so far, except its a general purpose thing, no related to 'online search queries' specifically.
After reading it though, the key bit seems to be the actual sending of the keyword listing, so while my PDA might have a list of "porn, pokemon, potatoes" as that list of words starting with "po", it could also query the dataset "'pooh and tigger','posh spice diet guide',potting" that was sent by the search application.
New and innovative... I dunno
I did something similar as part of an embedded systems project at uni, the simple sensors probably would never ever be doing complex xml processing, just spitting out the same response over and over with little changes e.g.
Thermometer
<sensor type="thermometer" scale="celcius" value="20"/>
next reading might be
<sensor type="thermometer" scale="celcius" value="25"/>
the only bit that changes is the temp.
No doubt an awkward format for really limited 'smart' sensors, but they're probably not the ones doing processing of it - just simple response stuff with a few substituted values here and there.
I agree on the cost points, they ahd a few of these panels on display, not as good as a Tablet PC, not by a long way - though the ViewSonic guy quoted a price that was a fair bit less than a Tablet PC. After all, these are more like a Pocket PC grossly bloated to have a 15" screen size.
I'm not sure where they fit, Tablet PC can run standalone - but a Tablet PC can't hope to have as much potential processing power that you could be controlling via the AirPanel.... erm, unless you ran a Remote Desktop/Terminal Service/VNC/Citrix session to the powerful machine the AirPanel would be controlling... hmm...
Are there many people who'd like to 'take' their regular PC/Laptop somewhere that the system would be unwieldy to use.... but is quite fine when in its normal usage (obvious with a PC, maybe you don't want to have your laptop with you when you're sitting on the lounge)
The type of memory used in these solid state cards has a limited lifetime. In general use its probably not something you would ever worry about - its more likely that you'll have switched to some newer, larger, better memory card/type well before reaching the end of the cards lifetime.
Flash memory can only sustain a certain number of write operations on each section of memory, so, after it has reached its limit, it will go bad - different quality cards have different lifetimes. Consumer cards have a lower lifetime, industrial cards have a longer lifetime - and a much higher cost.
This is a problem people encounter when running linux on a flash card, unless they'd setup ramdisks to be used for swap, and temp files, they would quickly rip through the cards lifetime. There are a few special filesystems specially developed for use with flash memory - one is used in the AXIS network cameras.
doesn't using memory cards for swap space kill performance? the memory card I/O is slowww, not to mention that with limited number of write ops on memory cards it'd kill them fairly quickly if it saw heavy use.
the tactile feedback from a touch screen is awful to non-existant. When you dial a phone with a keypad, you don't really have to pay much attention to what you're pressin because you can locate your finger by feel, touch screens don't do that, you have to actually look at it to know where your finger is in relation to teh keys, and to verify its actually registered the keypress.
This is one of the reasons the Sony-ERicsson P800 has a flip keypad that partially covers the touch screen - you get full touch screen for when you want it, and a keypad for when you'd want that as well. best of both worlds.
if the screen is the same basic design as my T68 then don't worry about it, the screens have a hard, transparent plastic cover - its not something that you need to worry about like the screen on a PDA.
given that you need a mod-chip in order to run your own code on an Xbox, wouldn't the Xbox hackers that are interested in the contest have chips already?
but starving children aren't entertaining, the performances of said children on World Vision adverts isn't anywhere near as good as the Farscape team's.
maybe they'd make less, I'd argue that bands other than garage bands wouldn't exist if it was 'just about the music', they need to pay bills too.
I'm not a wireless engineer either, but I'd imagine that public key crypto has too high an overhead - don't most PKI systems use the public key to encrypt a session key that gets used with 'normal' symmetrical cyphers?